"America"" by Desaparecidos. ""First Breath, Last Breath"" is written about ""the perspective of losing your girlfriend/wife while she gives birth to your daughter"". Nielsen's wife nearly died during childbirth in 2017. """"You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense”"" references the Charles Bukowski poetry book of the same name. The album itself is named after a line in a Bukowski poem, as was ""Let It Enfold You"". Nielsen wrote the song with the intention of emulating the sound of early 2000's Saves The Day. ""If There Is Light, It Will Find You"" was written to be an"
"The last line of the third stanza, """"And ferns the warm dark soil"""" was originally """"And ferns the crimson soil"""". Her second anthology, ""The Witch Maid & Other Verses"", published in 1914, included the original version. A recording of ""My Country"" made by the radio and TV actor Leonard Teale became so popular in the 1970s that his reading of the first lines of the second stanza were often used to parody him. My Country ""My Country"" is an iconic patriotic [poem]about [Australia], written by Dorothea Mackellar (1885–1968) at the age of 19 while homesick in the United Kingdom. After"
"The Waste Land The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's ""The Criterion"" and in the United States in the November issue of ""The Dial"". It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are ""April is the cruellest month"", ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust"", and the mantra in the"
"Mother's Last Word to Her Son ""Mother's Last Word to Her Son"" is a gospel blues song written by Washington Phillips (18801954) and recorded by him (vocals and zither) in 1927. The song is in strophic form, and consists of five quatrains in rhyming couplets. The mother advises her son as he leaves home to always remember Jesus. The fourth verse contains the line, ""And you have a burden, He'll make them light"", alluding to Christ's words in the Gospel of Matthew at : The same Biblical verse is alluded to in Phillips' song ""Take Your Burden to the Lord"
"Annotated versions Recordings The Waste Land The Waste Land is a long poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th century and a central work of modernist poetry. Published in 1922, the 434-line poem first appeared in the United Kingdom in the October issue of Eliot's ""The Criterion"" and in the United States in the November issue of ""The Dial"". It was published in book form in December 1922. Among its famous phrases are ""April is the cruellest month"", ""I will show you fear in a handful of dust"", and the"
"that Thou art; Be Thou my best thought in the day and the night, Both waking and sleeping, Thy presence my light. Be Thou my Wisdom, and Thou my true Word; Be Thou ever with me, and I with Thee, Lord; Be Thou my great Father, and I Thy true son; Be Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. Be Thou my Breastplate, my Sword for the fight; Be Thou my whole Armor, be Thou my true Might; Be Thou my soul’s Shelter, be Thou my strong Tow’r, O raise Thou me heav’nward, great Pow’r of my pow’r."
"Nacogdoches. He is buried in the historic Harmony Hill Cemetery in Rusk County, Texas, where his striking monument is engraved with his own epitaph: Let the land lose my name but witness with affection the reverence of my fingers, caresses of my hand. Let God who pressed me of it accept my work as my faith, my prayer, and let it stand. One of Adams' best-known poems is sometimes titled either “July Wall Poem” or “Mason’s Man” and is a tribute to his father, W.T. Adams. “The Mason’s Man” Cyd Adams ""IT was just about my life ago; ""You were"
"time Lu You retired to his home town until his death. He did not have time to edit his work, and 6500 poems survive from this period. His work in this period includes peaceful pastoral images as well as desolation and bleakness. Though his style changed throughout his life, his work is always full of patriotism. This is the most important feature of his poetry, and the major reason they have been valued for almost a thousand years. Lu You wrote many poems. One of his most famous is ""To My Son"" (示兒, Shi Er). This is how it goes:"
"shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world—with kings, The powerful of the earth—the wise, the"
"This Dust Was Once the Man ""This Dust Was Once the Man"" is an elegy poem by Walt Whitman in 1871. The poem is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. The poem was written six years after Lincoln's assassination. Whitman had written three previous poems about Lincoln, all in 1865: ""O Captain! My Captain!"", ""When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"", and ""Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day."" ""This Dust Was Once the Man"" was included in of Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The poem served as the setting for two choral works of Jeffrey Hoover. This"
"refrain is featured in the 2014 movie ""Song of the Sea"", which is based largely on Celtic mythology. The novella ""The World More Full of Weeping"" by Robert Wiersema references this poem. The novel ""Shutter Man"" by Richard Montanari references the last stanza of the poem. On the television show ""The Finder"", the line ""Come away, O human child"" is seen inscribed on Eloise Jade Knox's headstone in episode 10, ""The Conversation"". The Stolen Child ""The Stolen Child"" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, published in 1889 in ""The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems"". The poem was written"
"that Sonnet 15's closing line ""As he [i.e. Time] takes from you, I engraft you new"" (15.14) is the ""first of several traditional claims for the immortalizing power of verse."" This theme of poetic immortality is continued in later sonnets, including sonnet 17's closing couplet ""You should live twice: in [your child] and in my rhyme,"" in sonnet 18's last few lines ""Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade / When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st. / So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life"
"her husband and family in 1867. Of their nine children, five died young. Bonar’s poetry possessed a deep spirituality of tone and a submissive glint of piety. Her hymns appeared in Dr. Bonar's ""Songs for the Wilderness"", 1843–4, and his ""Bible Hymn Book"", 1845. She was chiefly known through her hymn, ""Pass away, earthly joy, Jesus, all in all"", which appeared in the ""Songs for the Wilderness"", 2nd Series, 1844, and again in the ""Bible Hymn Book"" 1845, No. 108, in 4 st. of 8 1., including the refrain, “Jesus is mine!” The original text was given in Dr. Edwin"
"and flames he leads me safely on,""<br> ""And daily makes his sovereign goodness known."" ""3 My every need he richly will supply;""<br> ""Nor will his mercy ever let me die;""<br> ""In him there dwells a treasure all divine,""<br> ""And matchless grace has made that treasure mine."" ""4 O that my soul could love and praise him more,""<br> ""His beauties trace, his majesty adore;""<br> ""Live near his heart, upon his bosom lean;""<br> ""Obey his voice, and all his will esteem."" The third line of the last verse certainly echoes the thought of Charles Wesley's hymn ""Thou Shepherd of Israel, and mine"","
"God; he wrote that ""in the end every man shall be saved, though some at the last hour."" His book ""The Mysterie of God"" is apparently the first theological work in the English language to state this universalism. The Soviet-era Alexander Garden Obelisk in Moscow, Russia, in 1918 included his name among a list of outstanding thinkers and personalities of the struggle for the liberation of workers. In 1999, the British activist group The Land is Ours celebrated the Digger movement's 350th anniversary with a march and reoccupation of St George's Hill, the site of the first Digger colony. Like"
"is my motherland. The trees are decked with flowers,<br> Singing birds teeming bowers,<br> Swarms of murmuring honeybees rush by,<br> Drink the nectar and on blossoms they lie.<br> Nowhere will you find a nation so grand,<br> Queen of all, she is my motherland. Such love from brother and mother,<br> Where else will you discover?<br> O Mother, I hold your two feet to my heart.<br> In this land I was Born, from here be my final Depart.<br> Nowhere will you find a nation so grand,<br> Queen of all, she is my motherland. Dwijendralal Ray Dwijendralal Ray (; 19 July 1863 – 17"
"the history in its pomps engraved forever;<br> your soil is center of enormous riches,<br> your sky, the most beautiful that the sun has illuminated! I <br> Gentle amazona with a smiling face,<br> valiant you show yourself over a high rock;<br> the laurels encircle your olympic forehead<br> and the wind hoists your graceful pennant! II <br> To the tragic encounter of hirsute lions,<br> your eagles went in a triumphal march;<br> and the sun at San Félix shone in your escutcheons!,<br> and your name was inmortal henceforth! III <br> You enclose, oh Homeland! the beautiful and the great.<br> The glory makes you"
"""Mignon's Song"" which opens with one of the most famous lines in German poetry, an allusion to Italy: """"""?"" (""Do you know the land where the lemon trees bloom?""). He is also widely quoted. Epigrams such as ""Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him"", ""Divide and rule, a sound motto; unite and lead, a better one"", and ""Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must"", are still in usage or are often paraphrased. Lines from ""Faust"", such as """", """", or"
"ever blooming Be by Patriot Virtue fed; May his worth the world illumine And bring back the Sheep misled! God preserve our Emp'ror Francis! Sov'reign ever good and great.</poem> Burney's penultimate couplet about sheep has no counterpart in the original German and appears to be Burney's own contribution. For translations into several of the languages that were spoken in the Austrian Empire, see Translations of Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser. After the last Emperor, Charles I, died in 1922, monarchists created an original stanza for his son Otto von Habsburg. Since Austria had deposed its emperor in 1918 and become"
"Whatif, Hug O War, Bear in There, and Ticklish Tom are among Silverstein's other most famous poems. Poets similar to Silverstein include Dr. Seuss, Eloise Greenfield and Robert Louis Stevenson. Where the Sidewalk Ends (poem) Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1974 poem by Shel Silverstein, and the title poem of the collection of the same name. Both the poem and the book gained instant fame and were deemed classics of children's literature. There have been several analyses and interpretations of Silverstein's Where the Sidewalk Ends, but among them all, a general conclusion has been drawn. Silverstein is famous for"
"lie / Deserts of vast eternity. Andy Marvell, What a Marvel'. The line ""A fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace"" appears in Stephen King's novel ""Pet Sematary"". The line ""My vegetable love should grow / Vaster than empires, and more slow"" is quoted by William S. Burroughs in the last entry of (July 29, 1997). To His Coy Mistress ""To His Coy Mistress"" is a metaphysical poem written by the English author and politician Andrew Marvell (1621–1678) either during or just before the English Interregnum (1649–60). It was published posthumously in 1681. This poem is"
"have won popularity and have become transformed into songs, for instance ""Flyv fugl, flyv"" – (“Fly, Bird, fly“), and some of the verses from his collection ""Til Een"", 1842, (“For One”) a tribute to his wife. A classic is also the small humorous epic poem for children: ""Flugten til Amerika"" 1830, (Engl. Transl. ""The Flight to America"", 1976). Besides must be mentioned ""In the Year of Grace"" a novel (1874); and other works in prose. He died in Paris, but his body was brought to Denmark, and was buried in the heart of the woods. As a lover of Woman"
"end to his growing. </poem> <poem> The trees they grow so high and the leaves they do grow green, And many a cold winter's night my love and I have seen. Of a cold winter's night, my love, you and I alone have been, Whilst my bonny boy is young, he's a-growing. Growing, growing, Whilst my bonny boy is young, he's a-growing. O father, dearest father, you've done to me great wrong, You've tied me to a boy when you know he is too young. O daughter, dearest daughter, if you wait a little while, A lady you shall be"
"of North Carolina at Chapel Hill observes that ""Children of Men"" is ""full of tidbits that call out to the educated viewer"". During a visit to his house by Theo and Kee, Jasper says ""Shanti, shanti, shanti."" Eldred notes that the ""shanti"" used in the film is also found at the end of an Upanishad and in the final line of T. S. Eliot's poem ""The Waste Land"", a work Eldred describes as ""devoted to contemplating a world emptied of fertility: a world on its last, teetering legs"". ""Shanti"" is also a common beginning and ending to all Hindu prayers,"
"Adam-ondi-Ahman (hymn) ""Adam-ondi-Ahman"" (originally ""This Earth Was Once a Garden Place"") is an LDS hymn and was included in the first Latter Day Saint hymnal and quickly became one of the most popular songs of the early church. It was published in 1835 in ""Messenger and Advocate"" and is hymn number 49 in the current LDS Church hymnal. The hymn was written by W. W. Phelps, an early church member and poet. The music comes from the 1835 Southern Appalachian folk hymn ""Prospect of Heaven"". The Latter Day Saint term, ""Adam-ondi-Ahman"", refers to the place that Adam and Eve went"
"oracle.""... Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung Has come and gone, and the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew: Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign, With a new breed of men sent down from heaven. Only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom The iron shall cease, the golden race arise, Befriend him, chaste Lucina; 'tis thine own Apollo reigns ... ""For thee, O boy, First shall the earth, untilled, pour freely forth Her childish gifts, the gadding ivy-spray With foxglove and Egyptian bean-flower mixed, And laughing-eyed acanthus. Of themselves, Untended, will the she-goats then bring"
"spare, grave, free from excessive decoration, and full of firmly controlled feeling."" In the fifteenth edition of ""Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"" (1980), nine sections of ""Ulysses"", comprising 36 of the poem's 70 lines, are quoted, compared to only six in the ninth edition (1891). Many readers have accepted the acclaimed last lines of ""Ulysses"" as inspirational. The poem's ending line has also been used as a motto by schools and other organisations. The final line is inscribed on a cross at Observation Hill, Antarctica, to commemorate explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his party, who died on their return trek from the"
"Italy's, Russia's, or Spain's. Many versions of the text exist: the original typescript of May 1938, the first typescript with hand-written corrections dated August 12, 1938, as well as a final ""Coole Edition"" of the poem dated June 29, 1939, which was not published until it was included in ""Last Poems"" in 1939. Yeats intended for the poem to be printed last in the collection, as an envoi to ""The Circus Animals' Desertion"", and while a debate as to the true order of the poems has continued since 1939, ""Politics"" was the last lyric poem Yeats wrote and remains the"
"the rest Of Adam-ondi-Ahman. ""Old Israel's Cannaan"" changed to """"All"" Israel's Canaan"" in current Latter-day Saint hymnal. Hosanna to such days to come— The Savior's second comin[g]— When all the earth in glorious bloom, Affords the saints a holy home Like Adam-ondi-Ahman. Adam-ondi-Ahman (hymn) ""Adam-ondi-Ahman"" (originally ""This Earth Was Once a Garden Place"") is an LDS hymn and was included in the first Latter Day Saint hymnal and quickly became one of the most popular songs of the early church. It was published in 1835 in ""Messenger and Advocate"" and is hymn number 49 in the current LDS Church hymnal."
"he learned partly from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the dedicatee of his poem ""Friday's Child."" ""A Certain World: A Commonplace Book"" (1970) was a kind of self-portrait made up of favourite quotations with commentary, arranged in alphabetical order by subject. His last prose book was a selection of essays and reviews, ""Forewords and Afterwords"" (1973). His last books of verse, ""Epistle to a Godson"" (1972) and the unfinished ""Thank You, Fog"" (published posthumously, 1974) include reflective poems about language (""Natural Linguistics"", ""Aubade""), philosophy and science (""No, Plato, No"", ""Unpredictable but Providential""), and his own aging (""A New Year Greeting"", ""Talking to Myself"","
"all her sons and daughters Thy righteousness attain. Give peace within her borders, Twixt man and man goodwill, The love all unsuspicious, The love that works no ill; In loyal, lowly service Let each from other learn, The guardian and the guarded, Till Christ Himself return. To Him our land shall listen, To Him our land shall kneel, All rule be on His shoulder. All wrong beneath His heel; Oh consummation glorious, Which now by faith we sing; Come, cast we up the highway That brings us back the King. Farewell to Lanka ""(an excerpt from Rev Senior's last poem)"""
"sufficient. It is nearly two years ago, that my dear eldest son went out to the War for the last time and the day he said goodbye to me – we were looking together across the sun-glorified sea – looking towards France, with breaking hearts – when he, my poet son, said those wonderful words of yours – beginning at ‘When I go from hence, let this be my parting word’ – and when his pocket book came back to me – I found these words written in his dear writing – with your name beneath."" To commemorate Wilfred’s life"
"Something is imminent – and it’s dire. Our era is over – Europe’s on fire!""). Probably the most famous line of the poem is ""Du må ikke tåle så inderlig vel den urett som ikke rammer deg selv!"" (""You must not tolerate so well the injustice that doesn't affect you yourself!"") During the German occupation of Norway from 1940 in World War II, he wrote to inspire the Norwegian resistance movement. He wrote a series of poems which were clandestinely distributed, leading to the arrest of both him and his future wife Margrete Aamot Øverland in 1941. Arnulf Øverland was"